From the organ screen to the altar screen, 117 feet.
From the altar table to the east window 38 feet. So that the distance from the west door to the east window is 422 feet.
The length of the two cross aisles or transepts within, including the diameter of the lantern, 180 feet.
The breadth of the nave within, measuring from the south wall to the north wall, is 78 feet; that is half the breadth of the west front.
From the floor of the nave to its painted wooden roof is a height of 81 feet.
The height of the lantern within the church is 135 feet. The whole height of it without is 150 feet.
The height of each gothic arch at the west front of the cathedral is 82 feet.
The distance from the ground to the top of each pinnacle at the corners of the west front is 156 feet; that is, the same with the breadth of the front.
The Interior of the Building
is grand beyond conception. The northern and southern aisles are formed by massive ranges of pillars, supporting vast arches of singular simplicity and beauty. The great pictured roof or ceiling in the nave of the church, is a curious specimen of fanciful ingenuity. The divisions are of a diagonal form filled with various devices, some representing kings and queens or early patrons and founders of the monastery: others being of an hieroglyphical character.